Week 19

04/04/2016-10/04/2016
1st Year Exhibition Week
Summary:

This week was the 1st year exhibition, which would be on display for a week in the student gallery spaces. We were given four hours on Monday to install our work. This was a useful experience as we had to cooperate and consider how our work complements one another's indicating whose work should go next to whose. Also we had to be practical considering lighting spacing and power socket placement for projections or monitors. I chose to present my animal head sculpture and my road kill badger painting. The two of which seem to complement one another. I initially wanted to use my new A1 hybrid animal drawing from last week however this neither complemented my work or my piers. Therefore I chose not to include it. This was a good choice as without the third piece of work I was able to place the two pieces in line with one another forming an S shape which helped the viewers eyes flow from one piece to another helping to establish the link between the two pieces.

For the first week back after Easter  we were set the task of creating a 1st year exhibition, which would be on display for a week in the student gallery areas/ Project spaces around the studios. For this each student in the first year was assigned to a group of roughly ten. In these groups we were given four hours on Monday to install our work. This was a useful experience as we had to cooperate and consider how our work complements one another's indicating whose work should go next to whose. Also we had to be practical considering lighting spacing and power socket placement for projections or monitors. I chose to present my animal head sculpture and my road kill badger painting as shown in image 1 below. The two of which seem to complement one another. The road kill badger was my first combination of the themes animal forms, and the human capacity for violence. Which looks at the animal form in a pathetic feeble carcass like state due to human violence. The animal head on the other hand is a solid sinister take on the animal form due to human violence. Therefore the two complement one another.

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I initially wanted to use my new A1 hybrid animal drawing (image 2) from last week however this neither complemented my work or my piers. Therefore I chose not to include it. This was a good choice as without the third piece of work I was able to place the two pieces in line with one another helping to establish the link between the two pieces.

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Below image 3, I've tried to show with the red line how the sculpture and painting formed an S shape which helped the viewers eyes flow from one piece to another.

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Below I have documented the exhibition installation.

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Below I have photographed further exhibits that were installed by my piers.

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Below is my finished installation which stayed up until the Friday, that morning we had to take town our exhibition so that the next group of first years could install their work. On the Tuesday however as a group we gave a presentation to three members of staff about our work.